26 February 2018

CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 26TH FEBRUARY 2018

WIRRAL
Heswall Shore
280 Shelduck,78 Teal,45 Pintail,11,000 knot,1200 Redshank,860 Curlew also a Water Pipit (acquiring summer plumage) off Heswall Boatyard.

Thurstaston Shore
6 Brent Geese

Burton RSPB
Great Egret x1 Burton Marsh From Point
Pink-Footed Geese X800+ Burton Marsh Plus 4 Flew Over Reserve
Raven Flew Over Burton Point
Fieldfare x30+ Far End Boardwalk Second Field On Right With Sheep
Avocet x2 Bridge Screen Pool
Pintail x2 By Bridge Screen Could Only Them From IMF
Curlew x27 Back Of Wet Grassland
Marsh Harrier Over Wet Grassland
Peregrine On Pile Cut Down Reed Wet Grassland
Redwing x40+ Field Right Of House
Stonechat x2 Fence Left Main Scrape
Sparrowhawk Over Field Left Bunker Entrance


Parkgate
Great White Egret

CHESHIRE
Marbury Country Park-Hawfinch-11 in arboretum.

Widnes
Glaucous Gull-2nd-winter from traffic lights at end of Mersey Gateway bridge on roof opposite WRS Recycling.

Poynton
Waxwing-Between Vernon road/Dickens land junction.

Sandbach Flashes
1st winter Iceland Gull-Elton Hall flash-2 Great White egrets,Little egret,1st summer Iceland gull and Glaucous gull.

Astbury Mere
4 Hawfinches in silver birches left of visitors car park.

Cuddington
Hawfinch-1 still at Delamere Park at corner of Westrees.

Moore Nature Reserve
Female Lesser spotted woodpecker in small triangular wood left of Lapwing lane.Willow tit-Pond wood.

MEGAS IN BRITAIN
NORTH AMERICAN HORNED LARK-Female alpestris,praticola or hoyti on causeway; view from causeway between A3044 and Town Lane (TQ051731TW19 7PU)-Staines reservoir-Surrey.

THAYER'S GULL-Juvenile-Isbley water-Blashford lakes-Hampshire.